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As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

Like many Americans of his background, Luigi Mangione’s bookish aspirations were defined by what everybody else was reading, or thought they should be reading.

Charles Onana and his publisher were fined for passages in a book that were found to have violated a French law making it illegal to deny an officially recognized genocide.

The poet set the course for her revolutionary career early, and charted it faithfully for decades by staying true to her vision and herself.

The poet left a long visual record of a career in the public sphere.

In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.

Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.

A decade after it was published, the book “Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents” is surging in popularity and making people rethink their family dynamic.

In “The Rest Is Memory,” Lily Tuck imagines the life of a Polish teenager during the Holocaust.

The actress and publisher will help decide the 2025 winner of the prestigious British book award. It is “the thrill of a life,” she said.